Part 2: Shhhhh! It’s a Secret! What do you consider the bread-and-butter of your business? Something that you want to keep away from your competitors such as a secret recipe passed down in your family for generation? Or perhaps something a little more mundane such as a customer or client list? You may be thinking—customer […]
LegalZoom Will NOT Protect You From You The real problem with LegalZoom’s forms (which I have alluded to or flatly stated in prior posts) is: When things go bad, you are left holding the bag, while LegalZoom gets to wash its proverbial hands clean. What I mean by this is: Any drafting mistakes you make […]
LegalZoom Cannot Get Its Own Contract Right With Its Customers When you purchase a document from LegalZoom, you automatically execute a binding, legal contract with it, entitled “Legal Document Assistant Contract for Self-Help Services” (we’ll call it “Your LegalZoom Contract”). After receiving such a contract when I bought LegalZoom’s General Agreement, I, of course, read […]
What Are Your Options When It All Goes Wrong? Your contract dictates (or should dictate) how problems are resolved between you and the other guy. That’s the beauty of contracts…a clear agreement will let you know what you’ve got yourself into—good or bad. So, what does LegalZoom allow you to do? Well, it gives you […]
How LegalZoom’s General Agreement Affects You Now that you have the building blocks, what do you do with them? Well, you actually have to go start constructing the General Agreement. So, what’s your plan of action? Although the LegalZoom Guide offers some instruction, it is simply not enough to guide you through the contracting process. […]
LegalZoom’s $12 Building Blocks After plunking down the twelve bucks for LegalZoom’s general agreement (the “General Agreement”), I expected it to ask me a few simple questions to get started. You know, straightforward questions such as what is the contract about—is it about merchandise, a personal service, a piece of property, or what? After all, […]
With the advent of legal document services such as LegalZoom, LegalACE, and Legal Arrow, entrepreneurs like you are under the impression that there are cheap services out there that will take care of all your legal needs—from entity formation to intellectual property registration to “general” contracts—without the need of an attorney. The catch: If these […]